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Can anyone point me in the direction of a how-to, or some other document to help me to configure my multiple monitors. I tried to do this already, but i'm ...
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Can anyone point me in the direction of a how-to, or some other document to help me to configure my multiple monitors. I tried to do this already, but i'm having a TON of problems. For starters, the monitors are set up so that it is two virtual machines on each monitor, basically. I can move the mouse from monitor to monitor, but I cannot make it extended desktop like i want. In addition, the new monitor that I installed doesn't have correct resolution. It's a very, very low resolution, and it doesn't allow me to change the resolution at all. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Here is my XF86Config file:
Code:Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "extmod" Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "xtrap" Load "type1" Load "speedo" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: [i]: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "slow_edodram" # [<bool>] #Option "slow_dram" # [<bool>] #Option "fast_dram" # [<bool>] #Option "fpm_vram" # [<bool>] #Option "pci_burst" # [<bool>] #Option "fifo_conservative" # [<bool>] #Option "fifo_moderate" # [<bool>] #Option "fifo_aggressive" # [<bool>] #Option "pci_retry" # [<bool>] #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "early_ras_precharge" # [<bool>] #Option "late_ras_precharge" # [<bool>] #Option "lcd_center" # [<bool>] #Option "set_lcdclk" # [i] #Option "set_mclk" # <freq> #Option "set_refclk" # <freq> #Option "show_cache" # [<bool>] #Option "HWCursor" # [<bool>] #Option "SWCursor" # [<bool>] #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] #Option "Rotate" # [<str>] #Option "UseFB" # [<bool>] #Option "mxcr3afix" # [<bool>] #Option "XVideo" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "s3virge" VendorName "S3 Inc." BoardName "86c325 [ViRGE]" BusID "PCI:0:10:0" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: [i]: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "DigitalVibrance" # [i] #Option "NoFlip" # [<bool>] #Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>] #Option "NoLogo" # [<bool>] #Option "UBB" # [<bool>] #Option "Stereo" # [i] #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "VideoKey" # [i] #Option "NvAGP" # [i] #Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>] #Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>] #Option "ConnectedMonitor" # <str> #Option "ConnectedMonitors" # <str> #Option "TVStandard" # <str> #Option "TVOutFormat" # <str> #Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "CursorShadow" # [<bool>] #Option "CursorShadowAlpha" # [i] #Option "CursorShadowXOffset" # [i] #Option "CursorShadowYOffset" # [i] #Option "UseEdidFreqs" # [<bool>] #Option "FlatPanelProperties" # <str> #Option "TwinView" # [<bool>] #Option "TwinViewOrientation" # <str> #Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" # <str> #Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" # <str> #Option "MetaModes" # <str> #Option "UseInt10Module" # [<bool>] #Option "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" # [<bool>] #Option "NoRenderExtension" # [<bool>] #Option "Overlay" # [<bool>] #Option "CIOverlay" # [<bool>] #Option "ForceEmulatedOverlay" # [<bool>] #Option "TransparentIndex" # [i] #Option "OverlayDefaultVisual" # [<bool>] #Option "NvEmulate" # [i] #Option "NoBandWidthTest" # [<bool>] #Option "CustomEDID-CRT-0" # <str> #Option "CustomEDID-CRT-1" # <str> #Option "CustomEDID-DFP-0" # <str> #Option "CustomEDID-DFP-1" # <str> #Option "CustomEDID-TV-0" # <str> #Option "CustomEDID-TV-1" # <str> #Option "TVOverScan" # <f> #Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" # <str> #Option "MultisampleCompatibility" # [<bool>] #Option "RegistryDwords" # <str> #Option "RegistryBinary" # <str> #Option "NoPowerConnectorCheck" # [<bool>] #Option "AllowDFPStereo" # [<bool>] #Option "XvMCUsesTextures" # [<bool>] #Option "HorizSync" # <str> #Option "VertRefresh" # <str> #Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" # [<bool>] #Option "RandRRotation" # [<bool>] #Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" # [<bool>] #Option "Coolbits" # [i] #Option "AllowDDCCI" # [<bool>] #Option "ConstantFrameRateHint" # [<bool>] #Option "LoadKernelModule" # [<bool>] #Option "ClearCube" # [<bool>] #Option "PredefinedTimings" # [i] #Option "EmulatedOverlaysTimerMs" # [i] Identifier "Card1" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Card1" Monitor "Monitor1" SubSection "Display" Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
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I have never done this before but I think I found a link that may be useful: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/...s_with_XFree86
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Ok that helped me get the extended desktop. Now the color of both monitors is horrible and the screens again cannot be resized. Any suggestions? I added the Xinerama section at the bottom of my config file. So it looks something like this:
That's what i added. Another thing is that my agp card should be the main card, and what the computer boots up with. I don't know how to configure this. I checked my bios settings and nowhere in there can I configure AGP/PCI settings. I have yet to check my motherboard for a jumper, but i figured i'd throw that out there too. Any suggestions would be helpful.Code:Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "true" EndSection
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Sweet, this post helped me, I just wanted to get duel monitors to stop cloneing themselves and just be extended desktops!
Much thanks!
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I resolved the problem of having the PCI card being my primary video card. Just go into the BIOS and there is a setting in there to change PCI to secondary and AGP as primary. Now I'm having troubles getting my old S3 ViRGE card to work. It worked as a secondary card, but as a Primary card it's giving me hell. I'll reply if I ever find an answer, but from the looks of the other people that have had the same problem, I think I'm SOL, either that or is there a way to kink out my config file so it will do what i want?
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